The striking thing about the last couple of hours spent looking for these articles is how few there were to find. British newspapers The Guardian, The Sun and The Telegraph decided that at least a couple of articles were called for, but there is not a word on the anniversary from the originators of the … Continue reading »
Jul
05
Kids’ tv shapes our leaders’ foreign policy?
It’s easy to blame the baby boomers for a lot of the self-regarding, politics as consumerism approach to development currently at large. It’s less comforting to think many of those development folks are my age – generation Xers. When British generation Xers were growing up, most of us watched a tv programme called Blue Peter … Continue reading »
Jul
02
The day we gave our voices away
On the second of July, five years ago, Tom and I were part of the massive Make Poverty History rally winding its way around central Edinburgh. Tom wasn’t really a people power kinda guy but he’d sent me an email saying he thought this might actually work and was I up for it. I wasn’t. … Continue reading »